Daniel Defoe's classic novel gets a makeover (with a bit of a comedic twist) in this saga of a young man, Robinson Crusoe, shipwrecked on a desert island, where his unlikely friendship with a native named Friday helps him hold onto his sanity as he desires to return home to his wife and children. While the current lives of the two men are filled with hungry cannibals, wild animals and terrifying lightning storms, flashbacks reveal Crusoe's life with his wife, Susannah, before he became a castaway.